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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.kinetica.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Kinetica

relex.ru

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

1990

1995

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.1, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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